by swatcoder 5 hours ago
> This was not the "free and global market" I thought we were supposed to have at this point.
Perhaps you haven't noticed but the pendulum has been swinging the other way for a while already and has a lot of momentum behind it. It's mentioned off-hand because the ongoing return to a multi-polar global order is covered elsewhere already, across dozens of articles every day.
> has a lot of momentum behind it
Does it? It's mostly the US pushing against globalism right now. Trump managed to unite almost the entire world.
Britain? Russia? China?
Admittedly, Europe was being slow to reconfigure until finally forced to do so this year but they've jumped on board now too.
And in typical historical fashion, everybody with less little influence/independence to project their own sphere are now cautiously but attentively jockeying to accumulate the best deals they can gather among those they do.
The world is far from united, even if many do happen to share opinion about the administration.
Is it? I'm fairly certain many countries have had a very strong showing from nationalist parties in recent years, or am I way off base?
You're not wrong, globalism and nationalism go hand in hand. All those Twitter bluechecks glazing Trump and trying to drum up the right-wing controversy of the day were exposed as people from third-world countries shitting up the American infosphere for cash. When British far-right nutters say "We can't import the third world", keep in mind that third-world dictators are saying the exact same shit about other parts of the third-world. Nationalists work in lock-step.
Left-wingers are only globalist in the most literal sense of "well, I'd like it if we got rid of these migration barriers". "Internationalist" would be a better term for them.
Globalist Nationalism is an ideology of contradictions. It purports that, no really, you're the real master race and everyone else's just a stooge that'll get taken out the moment we can get rid of these pesky liberals with their freedoms. They need shittons of spatial partitioning to make that work.
"It's mostly the US pushing against globalism right now."
This is completely wrong. China and Russia are very much working against it.
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